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Feel the knife in your face · Necrosceral

EXERCISE 1 OF 55
Groove Y -- Chorus
0 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART B
PART F
PART N
PART Q
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART AH
OUTRO
12 groovesYNAHFK+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Feel the knife in your face on drums

131 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
75/100

snare through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-23, hi-hat through bars 24-38, ride through bars 39-40, kick and crashes through bars 41-43 and ride through bars 44-60, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-58 and 78-92 -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Feel the knife in your face -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- Y, K -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-24 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Feel the knife in your face?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Feel the knife in your face hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Feel the knife in your face?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED